{"id":188503,"date":"2025-10-03T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:49:09","slug":"christian-horner-trying-to-be-back-into-f1-aston-martin-team-principal-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188503\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner trying to be back into F1, Aston Martin team principal says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Horner<\/a> is calling up \u201cpretty much every team owner\u201d as he tries to get back into Formula 1 after being ousted by Red Bull, Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell said Friday.<\/p>\n

Reports have linked Horner with multiple teams, including Aston Martin, since he agreed his departure as a Red Bull employee last month after 20 years.<\/p>\n

One of the most successful and highest-profile management figures in F1 history, Horner was removed as team principal and chief executive in July as Red Bull’s form dipped.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had a chat with Lawrence (Stroll, Aston Martin owner) this morning to find out what he knows. It looks as though Christian\u2019s ringing up pretty much every team owner at the moment,\u201d Cowell said Friday ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can clearly say there are no plans for involvement of Christian either in an operational or investment role in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aston Martin already has F1 car design great Adrian Newey, who created Red Bull’s title-winning cars under Horner’s leadership.<\/p>\n

US owned Haas has also said there’s been contact with Horner, according to comments from team principal Ayao Komatsu in a report by auto racing website The Race on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Former Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner.\u00a0Kym Illman via Getty Images. <\/p>\n

Horner approached the team and held an \u201cexploratory\u201d conversation but \u201cnothing\u2019s going any further,” Komatsu was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Another option could be Alpine, where Horner’s friend Flavio Briatore is in de-facto charge as executive advisor under majority owner Renault. Managing director Steve Nielsen said he didn’t know about any contact but couldn’t rule out a role for Horner in future.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I know, no,\u201d Nielsen said when asked if Horner had approached his team, \u201cbut Flavio and Christian are old friends, that\u2019s no secret. What they\u2019ve talked about, I don\u2019t know. Everything I see and everything I know, there\u2019s no truth in Christian coming to Alpine, but that doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t happen. This is Formula 1, after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some teams have distanced themselves from Horner, whose Red Bull tenure ended amid turmoil on and off the track.<\/p>\n

New team Cadillac, which is joining the grid next season, issued a strong denial in August of rumours it might work with Horner. Williams team principal James Vowles said Friday his team had not had any contact with him either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you should always welcome a conversation and there\u2019s no point closing the door,\u201d Vowles said, but added: \u201cI think we\u2019re very happy with the structure we have and it\u2019s working, so I don\u2019t see any reason to make any changes to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner is calling up \u201cpretty much every team owner\u201d as he tries to get back into Formula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-188503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}